Li Yuandong's Calligraphy Achievements

1983 At the turn of summer and autumn, Li Yuandong was admitted to the long-cherished Tianjin Art Institute and embarked on a long road of studying for three years. The rich cultural accumulation on the land of Kinmen and the humanistic landscape in the mountains make Li Yuandong broad-minded and open-minded, while the rigorous and profound higher art education makes him feel like a treasure mountain and a garden. During this period, he extensively observed the original works of ancient and modern masters of calligraphy and painting, and visited the ancient calligraphy of inscriptions, and he did not rest for a few days. He also worshipped Mr. Sun Boxiang, a famous calligrapher in Guinness, as a teacher and gave careful guidance. He realized that calligraphy is samadhi, which made great progress in calligraphy, gradually improved, and did not humiliate famous teachers.

When Li Yuandong was studying in Guinness, he took Sun Boxiang, Sun Qifeng and others as his teachers and was deeply influenced by the style of inscriptions. In his early years, he naturally wanted to express himself with Gu Zhuo's heroic strength and strange aesthetic tone. Therefore, his calligraphy of inscriptions, especially Wei Bei's calligraphy creation, can show a deliberate "atmospheric" shape-spreading and infiltrating vigorously, expanding in the form of words and expanding in composition. You can also strengthen your interest in the "three-dimensional sense" under the "testimonies" of his master, and deliberately show the unique experience of paving and running in a concentrated form, so that he can deeply appreciate the aesthetic pleasure that others may not get in the concept of "block surface". In my observation, what Li Yuandong got from his master was, of course, the rapid accumulation of body, pen habit and aesthetic way, but he skillfully excavated a good way to express himself from these aspects.

Mr. Far East's calligraphy has a certain position in the whole country. For example, he won many awards, became a member of the jury of China Calligraphers Association, or won the "Lu Xun Literature and Art Award" in Guangdong Province. I think a hero, only on brushwork, should have a place in the library of contemporary China calligraphy. Liu Zhengcheng, a famous calligrapher, collected only 100 people in the whole country in Comments on Award-winning Works of Contemporary Calligraphy and Seal Cutting, and Mr. Far East is one of them. Liu commented: "Mr. Li Yuandong is good at writing books, and his momentum is always amazing, between Wang Juesi and Yu Youren. Therefore, his paintings are elegant and childish, but his words are simple, beautiful and magnificent. Li also occasionally involved in the Han and Wei Dynasties, which was convenient for cursive writing to replace form with meaning, so the composition was clever, but harmonious and not contradictory.